Forgotten Brass: Coriolanus - Cyril Jenkins

Coriolanus - Cyril Jenkins / C.W.S. (Manchester) Band, conducted by Alex Mortimer (Recording: 1959) This composition by Cyril Jenkins also appeared as a test piece at a Crystal Palace Championship, making obviously high technical demands. Alex Mortimer, at his first Crystal Palace Championship, when a lad of only 16 years old managed to make his five note solo entry on the flugle horn - the only one for the instrument in the course of the pice - one bar too soon. He tells that he considered jumping from the Crystal Palace Tower, but on reflection decided that facing his colleagues and conductor was the lesser of two evils. (sleeve information).